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Humanities Podcasts
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Lecture by Jack Miles
01/18/07 | The UCI Department of English presents:
Pulitzer Prize Winner Jack Miles
"The Greatest Translation of All Time (the cultural importance of the Septuagint)"
Jack Miles is an eminent authority on the relation between theology and culture and an expert on the religious texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He is currently a MacArthur Fellow; Scholar in Residence, Getty Research Institute; Senior Fellow, Pacific Council on International Policy; Visiting Scholar, Religion Department, Occidental College; Contributing Editor of The Atlantic Monthly; and General Editor of the forthcoming six-volume Norton Anthology of Religious Texts. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for God: a biography and is also the author of the 2001 best-selling Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, as well as of many essays and articles on politics, culture, religion, theology, and literature.
Jack Miles's visit to UC Irvine was made possible by the School of Humanities, the International Center for Writing and Translation, the Department of English and the Religious Studies Program. |
Click on a file name to play:
- The Greatest Translation of All Time - JackMilesSeptaugint.mp3
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